Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs
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Conitzer, V; Freeman, R; Brill, M; Li, Y
Published in: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016
January 1, 2016
We study the societal tradeoffs problem, where a set of voters each submit their ideal tradeoff value between each pair of activities (e.g., “using a gallon of gasoline is as bad as creating 2 bags of landfill trash”), and these are then aggregated into the societal tradeoff vector using a rule. We introduce the family of distance-based rules and show that these can be justified as maximum likelihood estimators of the truth. Within this family, we single out the logarithmic distance-based rule as especially appealing based on a social-choice-theoretic axiomatization. We give an efficient algorithm for executing this rule as well as an approximate hill climbing algorithm, and evaluate these experimentally.
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January 1, 2016
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Conitzer, V., Freeman, R., Brill, M., & Li, Y. (2016). Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs. In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016.
Conitzer, V., R. Freeman, M. Brill, and Y. Li. “Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs.” In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016, 2016.
Conitzer V, Freeman R, Brill M, Li Y. Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs. In: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016. 2016.
Conitzer, V., et al. “Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs.” International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016, 2016.
Conitzer V, Freeman R, Brill M, Li Y. Rules for choosing societal tradeoffs. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016. 2016.
Published In
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2016
Publication Date
January 1, 2016